After YouTuber RUBY Franke formed a friendship with Jodi HildebrandtThe duo was arrested for abuse of children – but where do they stand now?
Hildebrandt, who was in the focus of a 2025 February Episode of Discovery’s Investigation The curious The series, began to start as a Utah -based therapist. She later founded Connexions, which is a program that offered marital counseling, parenting and life – usually for other Mormons friends.
Before the trails passed, Ruby arrived on YouTube Stardom in 2015 when she started her channel with the now displaced man Kevin Franke. The former couple and their six children, Chad, Abby, Julie, Russell and Eva-Eve The focus of everyday Vlogs displaying Ruby’s days as a mother staying at home.
Ruby and Hildebrandt became friends in 2019 after being tied through their church. From there, Ruby and Kevin began to follow the Connexions classes, but their marriage then split. Ruby and Hildebrandt began to live with Ruby’s children until they were arrested.
Ruby Franke rose in fame as she documented her family’s daily life on her YouTube channel in 2015, some of them controversial. After facing feedback on some of her parents’ choices, Ruby stopped her channel “8 passengers” and continued to launch Connexions with Mentor Jodi Hildebrant in 2022. In August 2023, Franke was arrested in (…)
In 2023, Ruby and Hildebrandt were arrested and charged with six charges of abuse of children. The arrest came after Ruby’s youngest son, who was 12 years old, escaped from Hildebrandt’s house and sought help from a neighbor.
Ruby pleaded guilty to four allegations of child abuse in December 2023 and admitted that she tortured her children. As part of the guilty agreement, she agreed to suffer a prison and agreed that her sentences to be developed. She also agreed to testify against Hildebrandt, who was guilty.
Continue moving to a Ruby and Hildebrandt friendship division – including discoveries about their connection from Discovery’s Investigation The curious Series:
2019
Four years after Ruby created her “8 passenger” channel on YouTube, she was tied up with Hildebrandt through their church. Podcast host “hidden crime” Lauren Matthias Discovered in the special of ID in February 2025 that Ruby and Kevin were “looking for a therapist for their oldest son” when Hildebrandt was recommended to them.
The true crime series included Kevin’s voice audio, who said, “Jodi always had a greater interest in communicating with parents more than with the current patient. Her theory was that if you want to help your child, it should To help yourself first. “
2020
Ruby was set on fire in 2020 when her followers were worried about her parents. They created an online petition asking for children’s defensive services to investigate the Franke family due to YouTube videos, where they discussed to take their big boy’s big bed for months as punishment and refusing to They bring their 6-year-old girl at the school then to school after her. I forgot to pack myself.
Insider reported that Utah’s separation for children’s and family services visited Franke’s residence and interviewed the children for two hours. The matter was dropped due to the lack of evidence of the charges.
“What people are not understanding is that we give our children choices in everything,” Ruby told at the time. “We are teaching our children to be self -government.”
Ruby Franke, who once chronicled her daily adventures of breast on their “8 passengers” on YouTube, has been arrested. Personality on YouTube, 41, was booked Wednesday, August 30, in Springville, Utah, on two charges of abuse of aggravated children. According to the website of the District Sheriff Department in Washington, it is currently in police custody. Franke (…)
2021
While Ruby went from Hildebrandt’s patient to her friend, she passed her channel on YouTube on the “Mothers of Truth” account. Hildebrandt eventually moved to the house of Ruby and Kevin, which he confessed to the special discovery investigation.
“The moment she appeared in my house, the strangest course began to happen. The lights that light up and turn off,” Kevi recalled in an audio clip. “It was strange and I hated it. Ruby started checking it at night. It started every four hours every hour, and at one point Ruby started sleeping there. That was that. They started sleeping in the same bed. “
Another Podcast Host speculated about the connection of Ruby and Hildebrandt, saying: “There was financial attraction and emotional attraction and psychological attraction. Did Iodine literally fight with its demons and preached against sexual behavior and still tried as one Lezbike closed?
Ruby and Hildebrandt have not publicly addressed claims for their personal lives. Ruby Shari’s daughter spoke of the “strange relationship” between her mother and Hildebrandt after leaving her memory, My mother’s house: Searching for a girl for freedom.
“I’ve never seen anything specific about it,” she said in today Showed in January 2025. Sharri wrote in her memoirs that she found messages on Ruby’s laptop after her arrest “confirmed to me the truth about the nature of her relationship with Jodi and how she was poured into physical”.
2022
Ruby and Kevin were separated by Hildebrandt’s suggestion as a way to save their marriage. As a result, Kevin was told to leave their home and lost communication with his wife and children. Ruby joined Podcast -in “Connexions” of Hildebrandt, where they shared their extremely strict parenting philosophies.
Later that year, Ruby and Hildebrandt moved her four youngest children 300 miles away in Utah. Ruby and Hildebrandt began to punish her two youngest children as they lived in Hildebrandt’s home. According to the Discovery investigation documentary, a few weeks before their arrest, Ruby and Hildebrandt were purchasing farm land in Arizona.
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2023
Ruby -2-year-old son then rescued Hildebrandt’s settlement in August 2023 and took a neighbor to call the police for his softened situation. Ruby and Hildebrandt were arrested and charged with six charges of abuse of aggravated children.
The series of curious issues included a recording of Ruby’s telephone call from prison two days after her arrest, in which she said: “Poor iodine. She puts the neck in line for people and then they go crazy with her. Jew Terrible. “
2023
Both Ruby and Hildebrandt pleaded guilty to four charges of aggravated children’s abuse and sentenced between 4 and 60 years in prison. They will not serve over 30 years due to a law in Utah regarding successive sentences.
“I got from you everything that was gentle, safe and good,” Ruby said before her sentence. “I got from you your mother. How terrible this must have been for you. I will never stop crying for damage to your tender souls. You are so precious to me. I’m sorry. “
2024
In a recording of Ruby’s call from prison months after her arrest, she changed her melody for Hildebrandt, saying: “This has been the most strange and wonderful intervention. Separate from iodine, so I’m not listening to it.
Hildebrandt’s prison was also recorded, where she defended herself and said Ruby’s son “did it to her” when discussing his extensive injuries.
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2024
YouTube has stopped Ruby and Hildebrandt and deleted the channels related to their names. Hildebrandt’s counseling permit was frozen after their arrest.
The man left Ruby, Kevin, is seeking custody of his children. He then sued Hildebrandt for deliberately causing emotional distress, causing the carelessness of emotional distress and neglect for him and his children.
“It is a lot to deal with every day, the questions about what if, what could have been done, what should have happened, what should I have done, what others should have done, it has persecuted you,” I Said KSL KSL of Utah behind.
2025
Ruby is currently serving a 4 to 30 -year -old sentence in the state correctional facility in Utah in Salt Lake City. It will not appear in front of the Board of Pardon and Parole of Utah – which determines the exact length of its sentence – by December 2026. The same is true for Hildebrandt, which is serving its sentence 4 to 30 years at the Correctional State of the State in Utah.
